God bless us, every one!

Why Venezuela Matters

Saving because I’m sure I’ll need the expert advice.

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

This is what's so aggravating to me.

Oh, my. *Fantastically* awful. I cannot recommend this playlist enough. Cats, dogs, bagpipes, accordion, Beiber, Swift… you’ve got to listen (cautiously, in small bites).

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

What was your version of eeny, meeny, miney, moe (counting game for choosing or eliminating someone) when you were younger? The best one I've heard is from Czech, which has several different endings but this is my favourite (image on the left is the original Czech, on the right is rough translation)

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

😂😂😂

Ditto

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Saving so I can giggle

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

🐻‍❄️ Animal #828 🦒 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 11.7 metazooa.com #metazooa

Fun!

TBR

When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦 😍😂

My anger knows no bounds.

This is a very interesting article

one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading". it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in. today's subway reading: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Way to go Mason, Ohio! No kings!

I am very hopeful for the church under Pope Leo. 💜💜💜

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

I enjoy a good dance party. Mason, Ohio. No kings. I ❤️ USA.

This. This. This!

Sick unspayed female dog

No Kings Day is almost here. The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them. But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Don’t lose hope

“The truth is that generals and other top brass were hauled into a room from around the world to listen to 70 minutes of meandering, stream-of-conscious insanity.” open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

Damn.

Ok, this made me laugh Bluefacts.app

Ok, hear me out- maybe the problem isn’t that Moms are putting certain things into their body. Maybe the issue is that they *aren’t* putting certain things into their bodies while they are pregnant. Maybe we should go back to encouraging everybody to drink and smoke, because they are protective. /s

Saving.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

www.reddit.com/r/Ohio/s/bxO... Two bands working together, so cool! TBDBINTL

From Rachel Hurley's page

RIP Melissa Hortman.

www.cbsnews.com/news/cincinn... Some feel-good news for the day. 💜💜💜

OG

It is good and easy to make the case against assassination without going out of your way to argue that a violence-cheering hatemonger was something other than what he was. Elevating his views to mere disagreement, as though he championed tax reform not supremacy, erases who he was and what he did.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Keep yourself (including your mind/emotions/etc) safe from trauma.

I just can’t even 🤦🏻‍♀️